Advertising device for cars and other vehicles



F. F. LEWIS ADVERTISING DEVICE FOR CARS AND OTHER VEHICLES @ch M 1924.

Filed Jan. 16, 1923 2 Sheets-Sheet l NVENTOR:

By'l 'al ATTORNEY F. F. LEWIS ADVERTISING DEVICE FOR CARS 'AND OTHER VEHICLES Filed Jan. 16. 1925 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 NV.ENTOR:

ATTORNEYS.

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ADVERTISING: DEVICE FOR CARS ANDJOTHER VEHICLES.

Application filed January 16, 1923. Serial No. 613,015. i

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FANNY E. Lewis, a citizen of the United States, residing in the city and county of Philadelphia, State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Advertising Devices for Cars and Other Vehicles, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to-an advertising device for cars or other vehicles in which cards, sheets, plates, boards, or the like are adapted tohave advertising matter thereon to be made to travel around the body of the car by a suitable motor so as to successively present the advertising matter to view, provision also being made for attaching the device to the body of the car or vehicle and steadily supporting it thereon.

llhe-invention is satisfactorily illustrated in the accompanying drawing, but the important instrumentalities thereof may be varied, and 'so it is to be understood that the invention is not limited to the specific details shown and described, as long as they till are within the scope of the claims.

Figure 1 represents a top or plan view of an advertising device embodyingmy invention as applied to the body of a car.

Figure 2 represents a side elevation of the device and the car.

Figure 3 represents a partial side eleva tion and partial vertical section of the members of the device on an enlarged scale.

Figure 4: represents a view of a portion of Figure 3, on the line 44- of said figure.

Figure 5 represents a perspective view of certain members of the device removed from Fi re 3;

igure 6 represents a side elevation of some of. the mechanism employed for imparting motion to the travelling advertising carrier. 7

Similar numerals of reference indicate corresponding parts in the figures.

Referring to the drawings, f

1 designates the body of a car, and 2 des-- ignates the upper structure or the roof portion of said body, both of usual construction.

(in the top of said portion 2 is secured the runway 3 on the lower portion of whose sides are the inturned rails 4 on which are sup orted the wheels or rollers 5 of the heads or blocks 6 from which de end the vertically extending brackets 7 w ich are spaced apart at suitable intervals and secured to flexible bands 8 which latter form endless belts for connecting the brackets 7 in series while said brackets are supported on the rails 4 through the medium of the wheels or rollers 5 and the blocks 6, it being noticed thatthe upper ends of said brackets are secured to the blocks 6 by the screws or pins 9 which are attached to said blocks and enter said upper ends of the ported on the roof of the car. The motor 10/is suitably supported in said portion 2, the bearings 16 of the driving shaft 1 1 being also supported in said portion.

Connected with the shaft 14 is the sprocket wheel 17 which in the present case is located back of the brackets 7 and which engages with the endless sprocket chain 18 which comparatively short, is supported on said sprocket wheel 17 and an idler sprocket wheel 19, which are suitably mounted.

On the inner sides of the brackets 7 are the lugs 20 which project therefrom and are so disposed as to be engaged by the links of the sprocket chain 18 whereby travelling motion is imparted to said brackets.

To the brackets are attached the cards, sheets, plates, boards 21 or the like of a flexible material on which are placed, printed or painted advertising matter which is readily visible. In order to hold the cards, etc., in place, the upperends of the brackets are formed with hook-like members'22 under which the adjacent ends of the cards, etc., are tucked and secured by the screws 23. The lower ends of the cards, etc, are held in place by turnbuttons or screws 24, it being evident that the cards, etc., are readily removable and may be substituted by others, they being placed side by side, as shown in Figure 6, and being articulated and flexible so as to bend as they travel around the front and rear ends of the portion 2 of the body of the car, said ends being provided with curved plates secured to the adjacent portion o a end he serving to guide Mid the travelling quently to the cards, etc. 21 whereby thelatter are carried around the sides and ends of the portion 2 and so successively presented to view.

As the car may sway while in motion, and this may be imparted to the travelling cards, etc.. the upper ends of the screws 9 are extended above the heads 6 into the runway where they have mounted thereon the rollers 27 whose diameters are slightly less than the transverse space of the runway so that the periphery of said rollers may strike the sides of the runway as the swaying of the car occurs and so relieve the screw 9 and brackets 7 and connections of torsion, twisting or bending.

'The sprocket chain 18 may be prevented from sagging by means of the elbow 28, the lower limb of which is passed freely under-the lower length of said chain, and

its upper limb connected with the runway,

while the latter is supported in the portion 2 of the body by the angle irons 29- or other shapes connected at the top with said runway and at the' bottom with adjacent walls of said portion.

It is evident that the brackets 7 and bands 8 comprise the travelling frame of the device, the same carrying advertising cards 21 as has been stated. Furthermore,.the

' device may be applied to buildings, sign boards, store windows, and other stationary places suitably supported thereon or therein so as to display the advertisements to the best advantage, while any proper motor may T be employed to operate the travelling frame which carries said advertisements.

The lugs 20 on the brackets may be substituted by pins or studs which project therefrom the same as said lugs, a form whereof is shown in dotted lines Figure 3.

The heads or blocks 6 and the wheels or rollers 5 on the axles thereof form carriages from I pended and by which it is enabled to traverse the body of the 'car on the rails of the runway around saidbody.

As said frame is connected with the carriagesby. the screws 9 the latter adapt said frame to be raised and lowered for the purpose; of vertically adjusting said frame and causing the lugs or pins 20 to be set corwhich the travelling frame is susrectly relatively to the sprocket chain'18 and thus properly engage with the links of the latter.

On the upper ends of the screws 9 are suitable nuts to retain the rollers 27 in position thereon. In order to secure an advertising card to a band 8 intermediate of the ends of the card, referring to Figure 5. I place on the card the block 30, shown dotted. and pass through the same and the card the turnbuckle 31 which is connected with said band and has its head adapted to be seated lockingly on said block formin somewhat of a washer between said hea and card and a bearing for said head when turned into locking position.

Hay'iug thus described my invention what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In an advertising device of the character stated, a continuous endless travelling frame adapted to carry advertisements, the same being composed of brackets with projections thereon, gearing which is adapted to engage said projections at intervals, and means for operating said gearing.

2. In an advertising device of the character stated, a continuous endless travelling frame the top members of which have depending portions to hold cards vertically against said frame, said cards adapted to have advertising matter thereon, means to support said frame, andmeans to operate the same, the. supporting means consisting of a carrier connectible with said frame, and a stationary runway, the latter having thereon tracks on which said carrier is movably sustained.

3. In an advertising device of the characterstated, a travelling frame adapted to have an advertising member supported on and secured thereto, said frame comprising brackets, and a longitudinally extending band of pliable material connected with said brackets, said gearing engageable with said brackets, and a motor adapted to operate said gearing whereby said frame receives its travel.

4. In an advertising device, a travelling frame, means thereon for carrying an advertisement, a movable support for said frame, an endless chain adapted to engage said frame, gearing adapted to engage said chain, and a relatively fixed member adapted to engage said chain to prevent sagging thereof.

5a In an advertising device of the character stated, a travelling frame adapted to have an advertisement-member thereon, gearing adapted to engage said frame, means for operating said gearing, and means for supporting said frame consisting of a rail attached to the object to which the device is appliable, carriages adapted to be mounted. and to run on said rail, and

LMLML screw-like members adapted to oonnect said frame with said carriages and to vertically adjust said frame.

6. In an advertising device of the character stated, a travelling frame adapted to have an advertisement-member thereon, gearing adapted to engage said frame, means for operating said gearing, means for supporting said frame consisting of a rail attached to the object to which the device is appliable, carriages adapted to be mounted and to run on said rail, screw-like Milt members adapted to connect said frame with said carriages and to vertically adjust said frame, a runway for said carriages, the same having a rail on which said carriages are mounted and adapted to travel,

and a guide for said carria es connected therewith and movable in sai runway.

FANNY F. LEWIS. 

